The growth of the energy storage market offers suppliers of inverters a huge growth opportunity, across a wide range of applications and regions. Many existing providers of solar inverters and industrial power electronics have moved to take a leading position in this growth market.

IHS Markit's latest report on the consumer augmented and virtual reality markets. This report adds to the coverage of last year's report with additional data and analysis related to the consumer augmented reality market opportunity and also the location-based (out of home) consumer virtual reality market.

This report assesses the market for cellular IoT gateways. The cellular IoT gateway device category is broad, consisting of finished modems and routers that use a cellular radio for wireless wide area network (WAN) connectivity in a range of IoT applications, use cases, and verticals. ...

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) is a technology concept involving the use of developing cellular standards for a wide range of vehicle connectivity use cases and applications. Many of these use cases are safety-related...

This report provides a focused examination of the cellular M2M module market for 2015. This report provides estimates of total cellular M2M module shipments and revenues in 2015 segmented by application, region and air interface standard.

IHS views Cisco’s acquisition of Jasper as strongly positive for both companies. As the IoT becomes a mainstream technology trend affecting most industries and markets, major ICT vendors across the board have announced strategies to play a key role in the development of IoT technologies, services, and standards.

AT&T has been steadily increasing its efforts and focus on the burgeoning smart cities market. In September of 2015 the company announced a new “Smart Cities Organization” with dedicated resources led by general manager Mike Zeto. The company is also a corporate member of Envision America, a nationwide program launched by the White House in September 2015, which focuses on smart city solutions that...

On 27 October 2015, at a major presentation to press and analysts in San Francisco, Verizon unveiled an updated IoT strategy, anchored by the announcement of its ThingSpace IoT platform. Verizon’s strategy is to remediate three key continuing challenges in the IoT market: cost, complexity, and fragmentation. One of the surprises of Verizon’s announcement is an unspoken acknowledgement that it...

On 9 October 2015, AWS announced AWS IoT, a cloud-based IoT platform. The platform is designed to take the cloud computing infrastructure that now serves over a million active customers, and apply a laser focus to providing the scalability and automation required to manage billions or trillions of devices.

As Nariman Behravesh, lead economist with IHS, has noted “nurturing the process of innovation will ensure that the huge improvement in the human condition that has occurred over the past two centuries was not a fluke of history”. Indeed, nurturing innovation was the primary topic of conversation at Qualcomm Life Connect 2015 (Internet of Medical Things) held in San Diego during August 31 and September 1, 2015. With cautious optimism about short-term growth expectations for digital health, and more resolute optimism for growth in the long-term, the event brought together several key players in the digital health ecosystem that are making use of Qualcomm’s 2net/Healthy Circles connectivity platform. This article is a synopsis of Connect 2015 with additional insight from recent work that IHS has conducted in regard to digital health.

Unfortunately, while the Mobile IoT Initiative will continue to raise the profile for the LPWAN market as a whole, it’s likely to do little to resolve the fragmentation. First, the GSMA asserts there is a need for three LPWAN technologies owing to different use cases, and so it will encourage three current efforts already underway

The world market for wearable technologies was worth an estimated $11.35 billion in 2014, up by nearly 18% from 2013. The market is continuously experiencing high growth, which is supported by demand from several wearable applications including medical, fitness, and infotainment.

Media coverage of Predix Cloud has focused largely on the competitive dynamic Predix Cloud creates between GE and established cloud service providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM. In our view, given the intense competition, the key to GE’s success with Predix and Predix Cloud will be the ability to create a robust industrial IoT market that combines...

SK Telecom is certainly one of the most innovative and forward-thinking operators in the M2M/IoT space today and should be a model for other operators in drawing useful lessons from SK Telecom’s experience. By leveraging the oneM2M Release 1 specification, SK Telecom has gone beyond the current operator mainstream....